Behavior is Communication, Learn How to Respond.
Behavior is Communication, Learn How to Respond.
Advance your expertise in trauma-informed care and become a Certified Trauma and Resilience Specialist.
If you work with youth facing stress, trauma, dysregulation, or emotional overwhelm, the tools you use matter. They need to be effective. They need to be safe. And they need to reflect what we now know about how trauma affects the developing brain and body.
Starr Commonwealth’s Clinical Foundations or Trauma and Resilience is an evidence-based training designed for clinicians, therapists, counselors, social workers, OTs, SLPs, child life specialists, and anyone supporting youth in healing. The SITCAP® model helps youth heal by addressing trauma where it lives—in the body—using structured sensory experiences that restore safety and build resilience.
This 10-minute sample from Clinical Foundations introduces the course’s core mindset—leading with curiosity, empathy, and a deeper understanding of children’s lived experiences to support wellbeing.
Who This Is For
Our trauma certification empowers anyone supporting youth in healing to expand their expertise in trauma-informed practices. Whether you’re licensed or not, if you support children’s emotional, behavioral, or developmental needs, this certification equips you with the tools to implement the SITCAP® model.
What You’ll Learn
By completing this certification course, you’ll develop a deeper understanding of how stress and trauma affect children, and you’ll also acquire practical tools and resources to offer effective support.
Gain deep insight into trauma’s impact on youth and the role of resilience in fostering positive outcomes.
Master the SITCAP® model and its evidence-based programs to utilize sensory-based interventions.
Decrease trauma symptoms and reactions of anxiety, avoidance, aggression and rule-breaking behaviors.
Make every interaction with children an opportunity to provide protective factors for their healing and future resilience.
This package includes our Clinical Foundations of Trauma and Resilience course and a large collection of resources—including hundreds of pages of activity guides, assessment tools, and a comprehensive new textbook, Foundations of Trauma and Resilience: Structured Sensory Interventions, a robust manual that offers:
Other Resources Available
In addition to our Clinical Foundations of Trauma & Resilience certification course, Starr offers a comprehensive suite of evidence-based clinical resources designed to support children and adolescents impacted by trauma and toxic stress. From structured, session-based programs to flexible, in-the-moment interventions, our tools help practitioners assess needs, guide regulation, and intentionally build resilience over time. Resources include field-tested group and individual programs, practitioner manuals, child journals, and sensory-based activities that support emotional expression, body awareness, and safety. With developmentally responsive options for ages 3–18—many approved by national evidence-based registries—Starr’s clinical resources meet children where they are and help them move toward healing, connection, and hope.
One-Minute Resilience Building Interventions
Quick, sensory-based activities that can be used anytime, anywhere to help children and adolescents regulate, reset, and build resilience in the moment
Mind Body Skills: Activities for Emotional Regulation
A flexible collection of breathwork, movement, guided imagery, and expressive activities that support body awareness and emotional regulation across developmental stages.
Healing the Experience of Trauma: A Path to Resilience Program
A trauma-responsive program that pairs body-based science with structured sessions and youth journals to help children process experiences while spending the majority of time intentionally building resilience.
